Should Australia Have a Bill of Rights
Australia is the last remaining Common Law country without a Bill or Rights or Human Rights Bill. It is important to note that the Australian variant of liberalism differs from the Anglo-American model in two important ways. First, the establishment of Australia as a series of British colonies under authoritarian governors and
the absence of any political revolution has meant a lesser stress on the idea of individual rights versus the state. There has been no one in Australian history to
shout 'Give me liberty or give me death', no real pressure to incorporate a Bill of Rights into our Constitution (Rowse, 1978).
American global hegemony and international influence
To state that there are no fundamental differences between international politics in 1900-45 and afterwards would be to carry the argument to an extreme, even though the continuities are greater than the discontinuities. Above all else, the liberal, democratic states and empires in the U.S. and Western Europe were highly interventionist and aggressive in the developing world and Global South long before World War II, and this did not change in the Cold War and post-Cold War eras. Even governments that were democratically elected were sometimes overthrown and replaced by more pliable regimes, such as the ‘friendly' dictators of Central America and the Caribbean. At the same time, though, there has also been far more harmony and cooperation between the Great Powers since 1945 than in the previous fifty years, especially through NATO and the European Union. America's alliance with Japan, Britain, France and Germany has survived various stresses and strains over the decades, and even the collapse of the Soviet Union, and this requires an explanation. None of the imperial powers has fought a major war since the invention of nuclear weapons, even though they have intervened frequently against the non-nuclear states of the developing world. Perhaps this alliance is explained by political and ideological affinities, as liberals maintain, or by cultural affinities as opposed to Muslim and Orthodox civilizations, as Samuel Huntington explains—although admittedly Japan is left as quite an outlier here.
Vietnam: history, politics, and contemporary issues
Throughout history drilling has been very dangerous activity. Thousands of miners die from mining accidents each year, especially in the processes oil and gas drilling. According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), more than 2 million people die from occupational accidents or work – related diseases every year. Conservative global estimates suggest 270 million occupational accidents and 160 million cases of occupational diseases occur on an annual basis. Half of these deaths may be caused by exposure to hazardous chemicals. Information on immigrant morbidity and occupational fatality rates is scarce. Few countries disaggregate data that permits analysis on occupational health issues. The U.S. alone reported 3.7 million cases of occupational injury and illnesses in 2008. Of these, 71 % occurred in service providing industries; the remainder in goods producing industries (BLS 2009).